Bill - practise this with a flight instructor at your next AFR - I've seen people (and relatively experienced PPL'ers) come unstuck doing these - fairly low level flying, at lower then normal speeds, flaps set & more impact of wind is not what a lot of people are comfortable with. If you have a massive desire to do this yourself as someone suggested go find a strip someone that has flat terrain all around and no high trees - especially around the base/final legs.
In 10+ years of instructing & charter I only ever did one of these for real and it was to inspect a grass strip after a fair bit of rain - I was taking a twin in with lowish props & didn't want to bend anything - as others have said it's fairly rare to do one for real. The benefit is at least you'll get some flying in the bad weather configuration of your aircraft.